now the first time i followed your instructions for the truetype fonts, void main, it worked like a charm. then i reinstalled red hat (don't ask) and now i did the same thing and for some reason the truetype fonts don't seem to be available to the browsers and they don't show up in openoffice either. now i know i followed the instructions to the letter, so any suggestions as to how i can get it to work or what config files i can read to find out what hasn't been updated?
thanks...........

I can't imagine how that is possible but if you say it didn't work it must not have. It's the first feedback that I have had that suggested the instructions didn't work. Let's break this down. You have a directory called "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" right? And you copied your *.ttf files in there right? What is the output of:

ls -al /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

What is the output from:

/usr/sbin/chkfontpath

And since you would have run the mkfontscale and mkfontdir commands within that directory you should have two more files in there: fonts.scale and fonts.dir which should contain font information that looks something like this:

now as you can see, the fonts are all there, but xlsfonts | grep gives no output whatever. for interest both the files fonts.dir and fonts.scale appear to contain info about all the fonts in the directory, including the gill and arial ones even though thoseare not available to applications such as openoffice.

Please read over my previous note again. I believe I added some inforation after you read it that did not get answered (sorry about that). I also wanted an "ls -al" rather than just an "ls". Also give me a snippet out of both your fonts.dir and fonts.scale files. If xlsfonts is not seeing the information in those files then something is wrong and none of your apps will see the fonts. It's likely that the TTF font path needs to be added to the font server configuration and you'll need to add it to your /etc/X11/fs/config file. If this is the case I will update my tip to check for this.

Do you have Load "freetype" in Section "Module" in /etc/X11/XF86Config? If not, and adding it fixes the issue then I need to add something else to my tip page. Oh, and do you have "freetype" installed?

that was in there all along. this XF86Config file is one i made before i reinstalled, i just dropped it in over the old one after the reinstall because anaconda doesn't write a decent XF86Config file for my video card, and i knew this one worked. More relevantly this was the exact XF86Config file i had before i reinstalled which was when the truetype fonts were working perfectly.

I don't know how that comment "This loads glx" got down on your freetype line but it belongs on the "glx" line. They have nothing to do with each other. Having said that I do use glx but I have an nVidia GeForce card with the nVidia GLX drivers. Am not sure if it will work with your card. It should improve the performance of any GL applications if you can use it, in fact I am not sure but you may not be able to run any GL apps at all without that module loaded. You might also want to look into the DRI module:

I just did a fresh install of Fedora today on a dual 1.4Ghz Compaq. I thought I would add the truetype fonts and low and behold my RH8 tip indeed did not seem to work. I did end up getting it to work, at least in Gnome (didn't try anywhere else). All I had to do was open Nautilus (click your home folder icon on your desktop) and type "fonts:" in the location bar. Then I opened another copy of Nautilus and browsed to my TTF font dir and selected all the fonts with my mouse and dragged them over to the other Nautilus window. It appeared to not do anything at all, the fonts didn't immediately show up in Nautilus "fonts:". I restarted X and logged back in and opened Nautilus "fonts:" again and all the TTF fonts I added were there, and they now worked in Mozilla. I don't know if anyone else has tried this. I believe this has to be done on a "per user" basis. I didn't have to do this on any of my other Fedora installs because apparently all of the settings from the previous installation continued to work.